Your his hallucination
"Well aren't you taking your time!" something sung to the blond haired adult.
All eyes turned to see the dark figure leaning against the wall, "Joker!" Urahara yelled in desperation catching Rukia, Renji and Orihime off guard, even the small lion plushie Kon was.
Yoruichi raced to its side, "Is Ichigo alright? Please tell me he's alive!" she panicked,
"it would be much better off if he was dead, don't you recon, instead of having to put up with that every day."
Urahara and Yoruichi looked scared at its tone, unlike this time it smiled quite a bit with a seme playful tone to it; now, it was dead serious.
"Don't worry! He's still level three so he isn't at the Hatter's tea party and he's alive!" it sighed; they took a small breath why the 4 unknowing people was trying to understand what's going on.
"What's the Hatter's tea party?" Renji asked flat out,
"Level 4!"
"What's happening to Ichigo?" Rukia asked,
"He now has a split personality!"
"What happens in level 4?" Orihime asked conserved,
"You don't ever want to know!" it was always plain and simple.
"Where is Ichigo?" Rukia asked seriously,
"Hell's mother!" "What?" the 4 questioned, the figure sighed, "an Asylum"
"How serious is Ichigo's condition?" Urahara asked,
"if Alice found out the March Hare had developed another split personality other than Cheshire Cat than they would send him to the tea party where he belongs!"
"ICHIGO DOESN'T BELONG THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE! Don't say he belongs in level 4!" Urahara yelled seriously,
"and how would you know what happens in level 4? You can't even track March down to save him!"
"Who's the March Hare, and who's the Cheshire Cat? And what's with the Alice in Wonderland theme?" Kon yelled pointing at the no form figure.
"March Hare is Ichigo's name! And Cheshire Cat is his hollow!" they all panicked at the mention of his hollow.
"If his hollow wasn't there helping Ichigo he would be in level four! In fact his hollow has to take some of his treatments and full take over so Ichigo doesn't sleep. You should be grateful, his hollow is the only one keeping Ichigo the speck sane!" it warned.
"Why can't we find Ichigo's spiritual pressure?"
"because he lost his will and his powers are being suppressed by himself, you put a seal on his hollow. Undo the seal a little bit so you can track his, he's the only one sane there out of the two of them!" It warned,
"you only mentioned Ichigo's hollow! Why doesn't Zangetsu help Ichigo!" Rukia yelled.
"Because he is a hallucination!" "No he isn't! I'll go over to Ichigo and ask him myself!" the red haired Shinigami roared.
"Heh! You can try, hallucination!" it mocked, Rukia and Renji was just about to snap,
"What do you mean by hallucination? Renji is real and so is Ichigo's ZanpakutÅ; can you explain yourself a bit more to us please!" Orihime asked with a serious face.
Urahara and Yoruichi had left straight after the option of finding Ichigo through his hollow was played onto the table, the figure smirked and sat down at the round table where the 4 new faces sat.
"Since you asked nicely; Ichigo has been getting treatment for his hallucinations of Shinigami and hollows, which means anyone who is related in any form to his 'hallucinations' is classified as not real. The only reason why the Cheshire Cat, his hollow is the ONLY one who can help him is because he is Ichigo's 'split personality', that's the understanding Ichigo has come to."
"Who sent him there?" she asked,
"no one! They kidnap people and bring them there" "but that's against the law isn't it?"
"first off they aren't from this world, they have been kidnapping from multiple worlds, even so; what they do in there isn't legal either" it warned.
"What are they really doing to him!" Orihime asked seriously, the other two Shinigami sat there amazed as the orange haired female was getting answers out of the figure without making it provoke her.
"They give all of wonderland drugs that courses chemical imbalance in their brain, the kidnap the healthy and give them illness such as split personalities such as Ichigo now has. Every day if they don't see 'improvement' will use electroshock therapy, cut pieces of flesh off, beatings and the drill through the eye thing. Which by the way Ichigo will have is treatment this afternoon, after the first month they do the drill eye thing to 'release the illness in the brain'. Ichigo's isn't in a very good position; if it wasn't for the Mad Hatter, he wouldn't know his real name. He'd call himself the March Hare for the rest of his life."
Orihime and everyone froze in horror, their best friend was putting up with this every day and now a month has past and they are going to make him brain dead; and they didn't know about this till just now and couldn't even find a way to rescue him from there.
"Hay, are you in that place where Ichigo is?!" Kon yelled,
"kind of, I'm in level 4, he's 3" "than why don't you just tell us where you are!" he yelled, Urahara and Yoruichi and walked in and started frowning, why didn't they think of that? Did the Joker want Ichigo there?
"Can't tell because I don't even know!"
"then how are you able to get in and out! Hell how do you know where this place is? Lead us to where he is!" Rukia roared.
"Again I can't! I'm just a monster, I found this place because this is where Ichigo's darkness leads, if I 'lead' you I can't because I disappear. I travel through darkness, and the real Joker is still locked up in level 4, I'm just his representative!" it explained. "This is getting more and more difficult! Ichigo's hollow's power is already disappearing and we can't pin point his power" Urahara warned.
the figure's eyes closed; a frown appeared on its face.
"Don't expect to get any sign for a long time, Cheshire's treatment just ended!"
"WHAT?! Is Ichigo ok!?" Rukia yelled,
"I said his hollow's treatment! Ichigo didn't wake up from the last one so his hollow took his treatment again!" it growled.
"Why would his hollow do that?" Renji asked growling,
"It's my rule EVERYONE follows!" "What rule and why would anyone follow you!?" Rukia yelled, it didn't answer just growled at the two Shinigami,
"please can you explain!" Orihime requested,
"the Mad Hatter and the Joker rule wonderland! The both of us has been there since it opened two years ago, the rule everyone follows is that you may dream but NEVER sleep. If you fall asleep you won't die, if you did everyone would; but Alice will take you away and inflict level 4 treatment, such as ripping out all your nails, dissecting you without anything to stop the pain, Iron Maiden, nine tailed whip etc., to my knowledge they already dissected Cheshire a couple of time to try and make him and March to join the Hatter's tea party."
"You're level 4, so all that happens to you?" Orihime asked,
"everyday, twice a day and the treatments from lower levels still apply; by the way if Ichigo doesn't show signs of improvement of ridding of his 'split personality' within the next week he will join me at the Hatter's tea party. Hatter already told the hollow to take permanent control" the Joker representative warned,
"Why his hollow!?" Renji and Rukia yelled in harmony,
"because he is the only one who is staying sane throughout all the torture and who is keep Ichigo from getting worse! Besides he is the one who is regenerating and fixing the wounds and trying to fix the chemical imbalance with Ichigo's power!" it growled.
"How to you know this?" Urahara asked; "the Hatter took a liking to the Cheshire Cat, she's been visiting him in his cell and hanging with him, keeping him company" it warned with a playful tone with a small smirk.